Pultenaea spinosa

Shrub to 2 m high; stems terete, glabrous, rarely pubescent to villous, often tinged red. Leaves in whorls of 3, ovate to broadly rhombic, 8–20 mm long, 10–20 mm wide, often glaucous; apex obtuse; midrib produced into a prominent, pungent mucro; surfaces glabrous, the lower prominently palmate-veined, darker than upper; margin flat; stipules triangular, 1–2 mm long. Inflorescence subterminal, flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 5–6 mm long; bracts absent; calyx 6–9 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles attached at base of calyx tube, subulate, 2–4 mm long, glabrous; standard 12–15 mm wide; ovary and style glabrous. Pod ovate, turgid, beaked, glabrous. Flowers Sep.–Nov.